Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Circinaria arida Owe-Larsson, A. Nordin & Tibell
Megasporaceae
Jason Hollinger (2019-03-21)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
7433
2014-10-03
United States, Nevada, White Pine County, Great Basin National Park, Strawberry Campground, lower part of slope across creek to the south
39.0595 -114.2745 +-25m.
2215 meters (7265ft)
bottom few hundred meters of north-facing slope of narrow east-west-running valley with dense _Pinus monophylla_ forest with scattered _Juniperus_ and _Cercocarpus_ and granitic and quartzite talus
thallus dispersed-areolate, areoles convex olive to dark olive with white pruina around apothecia and pycnidia, prothallus lacking or sparse tha black fimbriate both mixed on the same thallus, K-, algal layer continuous and even, epihymenium olive-brown to red-brown turning brown in K, hymenium ~130um, paraphyses submoniliform 1-2(3) ~globose end-cells, spores mostly 4 but quite a few 5 and even one 6 per ascus subglobose to ellipsoid ~25-30x18-20um, conidia ~5-10um slightly thicker than usual perhaps